Let us consider...one another! Hebrews 10:24-25
When we come toward the middle of Hebrews, chapter 10, we have what I like to call "the Hinge" (10:19-25)...verses that tie the doctrinal and practical sections together. And right there at the end of "the Hinge" is our second of three CONSIDER's.

As you may recall, the first time we encountered the word Consider, we talked about how the word means to focus intently like a star-gazer would do. And of course, our primary focus is always to be on our great High Priest, our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ -- our Great High Priest and Mighty God enthroned above.

When we look at our third Consider in chapter 12, it will be again our Lord Jesus Christ, who as the God-Man endured the Cross. But now, sandwiched right in the middle, is our second Consider -- Consider...one another. Why? Because if we belong to our Lord, we belong to each other. That's why I often sign my emails, One with you in HIM, when writing to my sisters and brothers in the Lord.

Last year a posted a fun blog about the interaction between two of my grandsons, Evan & Carter...brothers! I'd like to share the Bible study section of that post, which I called Am I My Brother's Keeper? right here. But if you would like to read the stories that go with it, just click on the link.

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Our Abba Father's desire for us His children is that we would be devoted to one another, no matter how much we may disagree and even dislike each other. We are in the same blood line, the same family!

The way we know we've been transferred from death to life is that we love our brothers and sisters. Anyone who doesn't love is as good as dead. Anyone who hates a brother or sister is a murderer, and you know very well that eternal life and murder don't go together.
This is how we've come to understand and experience love: Christ sacrificed his life for us. This is why we ought to live sacrificially for our fellow believers, and not just be out for ourselves!
1John 3:14-16 MESSAGE

We have a connection with each other that can't be broken, whether we like it or not! It's a connection as deep as union with each other in the Triune God! Just as in a human family, the primary connection a child has is with the parents (and thus with each other), so too in the family of God. Listen to how Jesus prayed the night before He died:

I do not ask for these only, but also for those who will believe in me through their word, that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that THEY also may be IN US, so that the world may believe that you have sent me. The glory that you have given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one, I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me. John 17:20-23

As I've been meditating on my union with Christ and my brothers and sisters, I've revisited what are called the One another verses. Maybe you would like to join me in revisiting them, or perhaps visiting them for the first time. Then if you care to, pray with me:

Father, empower me through the indwelling Christ, Your Perfect Son, to love my brothers and sisters. Love them through me. Understand them through me. Care about their spiritual, emotional, physical welfare through me, O God. In Christ's Loving Name. Amen!

John 13:14
"If I then, the Lord and the Teacher, washed your feet, you also ought to wash oneanother's feet.

John 13:34
"A new commandment I give to you, that you love oneanother, even as I have loved you, that you also love oneanother.

John 13:35
" By this all men will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for oneanother."

John 15:12
"This is My commandment, that you love oneanother, just as I have loved you.

Acts 7:26
" On the following day he appeared to them as they were fighting together, and he tried to reconcile them in peace, saying, 'Men, you are brethren, why do you injure oneanother?'

Acts 15:39
And there occurred such a sharp disagreement that they separated from oneanother, and Barnabas took Mark with him and sailed away to Cyprus.

Romans 12:5
so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another.

Romans 12:10
Be devoted to oneanother in brotherly love; give preference to oneanother in honor;

Romans 12:16
Be of the same mind toward oneanother; do not be haughty in mind, but associate with the lowly Do not be wise in your own estimation.

Romans 13:8
Owe nothing to anyone except to love oneanother; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.

Romans 14:5One person regards one day above another, another regards every day alike Each person must be fully convinced in his own mind.

Romans 14:13
Therefore let us not judge oneanother anymore, but rather determine this-- not to put an obstacle or a stumbling block in a brother's way.

Romans 14:19
So then we pursue the things which make for peace and the building up of oneanother.

Romans 15:5
Now may the God who gives perseverance and encouragement grant you to be of the same mind with oneanother according to Christ Jesus,

Romans 15:7
Therefore, accept oneanother, just as Christ also accepted us to the glory of God.

Romans 15:14
And concerning you, my brethren, I myself also am convinced that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge and able also to admonish oneanother.

Romans 16:16
Greet oneanother with a holy kiss. All the churches of Christ greet you.

1 Corinthians 6:7
Actually, then, it is already a defeat for you, that you have lawsuits with oneanother. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be defrauded?

1 Corinthians 7:5
Stop depriving oneanother, except by agreement for a time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer, and come together again so that Satan will not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

Galatians 6:1
Brethren, even if anyone is caught in any trespass, you who are spiritual, restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; each one looking to yourself, so that you too will not be tempted.

Galatians 6:2
Bear oneanother's burdens, and thereby fulfill the law of Christ.

Galatians 6:4
But each one must examine his own work, and then he will have reason for boasting in regard to himself alone, and not in regard to another.

Ephesians 4:2
with all humility and gentleness, with patience, showing tolerance for oneanother in love,

Ephesians 4:25
Therefore, laying aside falsehood, speak truth each one of you with his neighbor, for we are members of oneanother.

Ephesians 4:32
Be kind to oneanother, tender-hearted, forgiving each other, just as God in Christ also has forgiven you.

Ephesians 5:19
speaking to oneanother in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody with your heart to the Lord;

Philippians 2:3
Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit, but with humility of mind regard oneanother as more important than yourselves;

Colossians 3:9
Do not lie to oneanother, since you laid aside the old self with its evil practices,

Colossians 3:13
bearing with oneanother, and forgiving each other, whoever has a complaint against anyone; just as the Lord forgave you, so also should you.

Colossians 3:16
Let the word of Christ richly dwell within you, with all wisdom teaching and admonishing oneanother with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with thankfulness in your hearts to God.

1 Thessalonians 3:12
and may the Lord cause you to increase and abound in love for oneanother, and for all people, just as we also do for you;

1 Thessalonians 4:9
Now as to the love of the brethren, you have no need for anyone to write to you, for you yourselves are taught by God to love oneanother;

1 Thessalonians 5:11
Therefore encourage oneanother and build up oneanother, just as you also are doing.

1 Thessalonians 5:13
and that you esteem them very highly in love because of their work. Live in peace with oneanother.

1 Thessalonians 5:15
See that no one repays another with evil for evil, but always seek after that which is good for oneanother and for all people.

2 Thessalonians 1:3
We ought always to give thanks to God for you, brethren, as is only fitting, because your faith is greatly enlarged, and the love of each one of you toward oneanother grows ever greater;

Titus 3:3
For we also once were foolish ourselves, disobedient, deceived, enslaved to various lusts and pleasures, spending our life in malice and envy, hateful, hating oneanother.

Hebrews 3:13
But encourage oneanother day after day, as long as it is still called "Today," so that none of you will be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

Hebrews 10:24
and let us consider how to stimulate oneanother to love and good deeds,

Hebrews 10:25
not forsaking our own assembling together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging oneanother; and all the more as you see the day drawing near.

James 4:11
Do not speak against oneanother, brethren He who speaks against a brother or judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law; but if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge of it.

James 5:9
Do not complain, brethren, against oneanother, so that you yourselves may not be judged; behold, the Judge is standing right at the door.

James 5:16
Therefore, confess your sins to oneanother, and pray for oneanother so that you may be healed The effective prayer of a righteous man can accomplish much.

1 Peter 1:22
Since you have in obedience to the truth purified your souls for a sincere love of the brethren, fervently love oneanother from the heart,

A Branch In the Vine

Janet Renner Loyd has been a disciple of the Lord Jesus Christ most of her life. Her formal education includes a degree in education from the University of Arizona and also a degree in Bible & Theology from Moody Bible Institute. For more than thirty years, she has been involved in teaching and leading women’s Bible studies, retreats, and meetings…most notably Precept upon Precept and various studies that she has personally developed. Professionally, Jan recently retired from teaching language and writing to GED and adult ESOL students.

About her life, Jan says, “The most important thing about me is my relationship with my Father God through my Lord Jesus Christ. I am forever grateful to Him for His love, mercy, and grace to me and my family and friends...and the world.”

Jan has been happily married to John Loyd for more than forty years. They have two adult, married children and five lively young grandsons.

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